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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Pages
414
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

In an alternate present day, a Jewish settlement in Sitka, Alaska, has become a Yiddish-speaking metropolis. Detective Meyer Landsman is pulled into a murder investigation that threatens to expose the fragile political landscape of this unique community. It's a hard-boiled mystery with a fascinating historical twist.

About the author

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history...

Characters

Meyer LandsmanProtagonist
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